Name: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum - Introduction
Uploaded: 2014-07-26T02:23:23.000Z
Duration: 1 min 21 s
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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages,

for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic,

The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish

Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as

"historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer

genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-

curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only

entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable

Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written

It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are

retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.